Shiba sighting in Tustin
You ever buy something new (a new car, new electronic gadget, etc.) and get so enamored with it that you start looking around after your purchase and you start to realize how many people also have it?
I found this out with Ichi. Just when I went to go pick up my other half at the Tustin train station tonight, I saw a cream Shiba waiting at the rear of an SUV while a gentleman was packing her up (there's a few vet/vet hospitals nearby). Then after he picked her up, he had to make sure his B&T shiba would stay in. Both looked to be of adult size.
Either I didn't see it earlier, or I just didn't know, but there sure are plenty of shiba inu owners in Irvine and Tustin, either that or I've just had pretty good timing at seeing them.
Jesse
I found this out with Ichi. Just when I went to go pick up my other half at the Tustin train station tonight, I saw a cream Shiba waiting at the rear of an SUV while a gentleman was packing her up (there's a few vet/vet hospitals nearby). Then after he picked her up, he had to make sure his B&T shiba would stay in. Both looked to be of adult size.
Either I didn't see it earlier, or I just didn't know, but there sure are plenty of shiba inu owners in Irvine and Tustin, either that or I've just had pretty good timing at seeing them.
Jesse
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I find myself doing a double-take sometimes just to make sure I'm not seeing a shiba.
-Joe
Surprisingly, I have only seen 2 Shiba's at Central Bark (not counting the other 3 that live in my apt complex). I have befriended the owner of a cream shiba and one of a B&T. But I have still to see any more Shibas other than Nobu, Ichi, and Delilah when we go on Saturdays.
Jesse
Jesse - Have you ever seen Kosmo there? When we first got Ninja and were taking him, we would always see Kosmo and his parents there. He is such a social butterfly! His owners did 5 years of research on the Shiba before getting Kosmo! I thought that was super impressive! When we would go to central bark - the shiba's always were in the big dog section. We would go into the small dog section because Portia is small enough and she got intimidated with the bigger dogs and seemed to have more fun with the smaller dogs. We would go every thursday night around 730pm and we would always see shiba's there.
I'm going to the Shiba Inu meet-up in Los Alamitos on the 21st. On the 28th, I'm "optional" on that because Ichi is having the following done in the next 4 days:
- blood panel (tomorrow)
- neuter (Monday)
- microchip (Monday)
- dew-claw removal (Monday)
- nail trimming (Monday)
Good thing I have 2 weeks off starting the 22nd, which is Ichi's D-day.
Jesse
Many of us thought he was yours, but 1.) He was a cream shiba and 2.) I had to be reminded that you don't live around these parts .
Jesse
To be honest with you, dew claw removal was an assumption I thought all dog breeders did simply because I believed that it didn't facilitate a practical use to keep the dew claws beyond puppyhood. I was genuinely surprised he still had his dew claws when I got him. I thought long and hard about it and Ichi's dew claws don't make contact with the ground at all when we go out for our run. He uses them to grip his toys, but he'll also use them to grip our hands and forearms when we're holding toys or objects that he's reaching up to grab. I can't punish the dog for unknowingly hurting me or my partner (despite having his dew claws trimmed) during play.
They don't feel like they are attached to bone so, for me, leaving them on is just a ticking time bomb waiting to happen of him ripping them off somewhere else down the line (like doing Shiba 500's in my living room apt). At least this way, it'll be done while he's under anesthesia, which is a situation I want to take advantage of in terms of "major" surgeries. The less times I have to put him under anesthesia, the better.
And also, I'll be there for the next 2 weeks to make sure he recovers well. I'm not dilluting myself to thinking it'll be a great time to be had by all, but I do know that the short term pain he'll have to endure now will save him from further reactive pain when his dew claws draw blood from anyone other than me that he plays with.
Jesse
If the dewclaws are removed in many cases it is done to mill dogs because they do not want them to hang up on the wire cages or hutches or dig into other dogs when they pack many animals together. Also it is easier for a person to grab the dog in a cage without repercussions if the dewclaws are removed. The millers do not trim nails the dewclaw is the nail that will gouge them when moving small dogs from from pen to pen.
Snf
There really is no reason to remove them besides the fact of what MIGHT happen in the future, if anything ever will.
Jesse
I'm giving it some further thought and re-assessing with my vet to see if they are just loosely attached to skin, or connected to bone, or connected to ligaments.
Either way, grumpy attitude is exacerbated by not-so-great news received at work today. So I'll try my best to separate the two issues at hand and deal.
Thanks everyone for the personal anecdotes.
Jesse
Im in Orange near 55 and 91 and go to dog parks all over OC area, Fullerton, Orange, Irvine. there alot of shiba inu owners in Orange County.